ATI Radeon X800 GTO AGP vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 240
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM Radeon X800 GTO AGP and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 240 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
ATI Radeon X800 GTO AGP 's Advantages
Lower TDP (49W vs 69W)
NVIDIA GeForce GT 240 's Advantages
Released 2 years late
More VRAM (1024GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (54.40GB/s vs 31.36GB/s)
96 additional rendering cores
Score
Graphics Card
Nov 2007
Release Date
Nov 2009
Radeon R400 AGP
Generation
GeForce 200
Desktop
Type
Desktop
AGP 8x
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
490 MHz
Memory Clock
850 MHz
Memory
256MB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
31.36GB/s
Bandwidth
54.40GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
12
-
Shading Units
96
12
TMUs
32
12
ROPs
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L2 Cache
64 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
4.800 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
4.400 GPixel/s
4.800 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
17.60 GTexel/s
-
-
-
-
FP32 (float)
257.3 GFLOPS
-
-
-
Board Design
49W
TDP
69W
200 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI
1x VGA
1x Molex
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
R420
GPU Name
GT215
R420 GTO
GPU Variant
GT215-450-A2
R400
Architecture
Tesla 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
130 nm
Process Size
40 nm
0.16 billion
Transistors
0.727 billion
281 mm²
Die Size
144 mm²
Graphics Features
9.0b (9_2)
DirectX
11.1 (10_1)
2.1
OpenGL
3.3
N/A
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
1.2
-
Shader Model
4.1
